“Adopt the character of the twisting octopus, which takes on the appearance of the nearby rock.”
Source: Elegies, Line 215.
Context: Adopt the character of the twisting octopus, which takes on the appearance of the nearby rock. Now follow in this direction, now turn a different hue.
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Theognis of Megara 16
Greek lyric poet active in approximately the sixth century … -570–-485 BCRelated quotes
“I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me.”
Original: (it) Un'intensa delusione sentimentale provoca un cambiamento caratteriale, dove la paura assume un ruolo fondamentale.
Source: prevale.net
“We are a part of this take-down culture where people are trying to twist your words.”
2019
Source: https://twitter.com/steinhauserNH1/status/1096852721800544256
BBC interview http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/buffy/interviews/trachtenberg/printpage.html
Referring to Graduation Day and Restless
“Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?”
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth
Source: Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844), p. 55
Context: When we hear of carbon beginning to appear in the ascending series of rocks, we are unavoidably led to consider it as marking a time of some importance in the earth's history, a new era of natural conditions, one in which organic life has probably played a part.